The chronology of Anderson's life that precedes the letters cites each of
his works, published and unpublished alike. The previously unpublished
documents relating to his career as a dramatist are given here.

No.

Date

Title

Nature and Location
of Original

1

April, 1936

Acceptance Speech for

Typescript; Anderson

the Drama Critics' Circle

Collection, Humanities

Award to Winterset

Research Center, Univer-
sity of Texas.

2

March, 1937

Acceptance Speech for

Typescript; Anderson

the Drama Critics' Circle

Collection, Humanities

Award to High Tor

Research Center, Univer-
sity of Texas.

3

May, 1943

The Eve of St. Mark,

Typescript; Playwrights'

Act II, scene 4

Company Collection, Wis-
consin Center for Film and
Theater Research, Univer-
sity of Wisconsin.

4

January, 1950

Acceptance Speech for

Typescript; Anderson

the Brotherhood Award

Collection, Humanities

to Lost in the Stars from

Research Center, Univer-

the National Conference

sity of Texas.

of Christians and Jews

5

May 10, 1956

Anderson Memoir

Typescript; Oral History
Collection, Columbia Uni-
versity.

1. ACCEPTANCE SPEECH FOR THE
DRAMA CRITICS' CIRCLE AWARD TO Winterset

[ The New York Drama Critics' Circle, created out of dissatisfaction with the
Pulitzer awards in the drama, was organized in October, 1935, and included
seventeen drama critics of the New York area, with Brooks Atkinson of the Times as its first president. Dissatisfaction with the Pulitzer award resulted in
part from its seemingly narrow grounds, for Pulitzer assumed a civilizing

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